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title: Stevens was later freed and fled the country, going into exile in ne… — Sierra Leone · tree and pragmatics
description: Stevens was later freed and fled the country, going into exile in neighbouring Guinea. Who acts: Stevens. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sierra Leone» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sierra Leone, sentence 187

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From Wikipedia, [«Sierra Leone»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Leone), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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Stevens was later freed and fled the country, going into exile in neighbouring Guinea.

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**Who acts:** Stevens · **What happens:** be, flee, go, neighbour · **To what, where:** country, exile

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Sierra Leone». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Stevens), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Sierra_Leone:187
# text = Stevens was later freed and fled the country, going into exile in neighbouring Guinea.
1	Stevens	Stevens	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
4	freed	free	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	exile	exile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	neighbouring	neighbour	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	amod	_	_
15	Guinea	guinea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Stevens |  |  |  |  | free, late *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **flee** | past | Stevens *not said here* | the country |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme country=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **go** | gerund | Stevens *not said here* |  |  | exile |  | in neighbouring Guinea | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into exile=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **neighbour** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Sierra Leone», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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